Alastair Crooke — The Geo-Political Poker Game: Where’s the ‘Off-Ramp’?

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“At the moment, it’s a game of chicken with no off-ramp,” Tom Pickering, another former US Ambassador to Russia, has said. “And we need to be looking at the off-ramp.” While this piece is mostly about Russia and Putin, this observation about about China is also noteworthy: Regime change may not be being spoken of in terms of China, but the latter fully understands that it is at the top of the Bolton-Pompeo-Trump ‘hit list’, and that its standing as ‘revisionist threat, number one’ enjoys bipartisan support in America.  As I've been saying. Sic Semper Tyrannis The Geo-Political Poker Game: Where’s the 'Off-Ramp'? Alastair Crooke Also How do you know when a politician is lying? Their lips move and words come out. How do you know when the United States is at a disadvantage in a

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